Christmas Cookies

For some reason it just doesn't seem like Christmas yet. I don't know if the weather has just been better than usual or that I am in the same place as John for once and not looking forward to Christmas which was always our longest time together. Regardless of the reasons, I realized, John and I needed some of our own traditions. We decided to put up the tree (I should get him some ornaments considering every last one on the tree is music, teacher, or cat themed), drink wine, watch the Sunday Night Lineup on Fox, and bake Christmas Sugar Cookies. I found several recipes online and decided to give them a whirl.

http://www.chezbettay.com/pages/desserts1/drts_sugarcookie1.html

Festive with the bamboo is behind the tree.

I made sugar cookies with frosting. I stopped by our local grocery around the corner and was sad to see they didn't carry festive cookie cutters. Our cookies, thus, look a little sad.

Vegan Icing

Cream together: 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup vegan butter:Earth Balance

You can add more of each as you go along

I then added food coloring

Sugar Cookie recipe

Cream together: 13 oz vegan butter and 2 cups sugar

Add 4 teaspoons baking powder

Add 1/2 cup almond/soy milk

Add 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Add 5 cups flour gradually while mixing

My mixture came out dry so I added more milk

Roll into logs (I had enough batter for three logs)

Wrap and refrigerate for an hour

Slice into circles or use a cookie cutter

Bake at 350 10-12 minutes

I over baked mine because they still seemed gooey....TAKE THEM OUT after the 12 minutes!

John said they were a bit crunchy..oops. He really liked the icing and noted that the cookies were very rich.

Yes, there are 2 cat cookies. We decided if we decorated two pumpkins for Max and Handel during Halloween, we had to decorate cookies for them.